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New Grok 3 release tops LLM leaderboards despite Musk-approved “based” opinions

xAI shows off new chatbot that calls legacy media outlets "garbage."

Ars Technica

published: Feb 19, 2025

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On Monday, Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, a new AI model family set to power chatbot features on the social network X. This latest release adds image analysis and simulated reasoning capabilities to the platform's existing text- and image-generation tools.

Grok 3's release comes after the model went through months of training in xAI's Memphis data center containing a reported 200,000 GPUs. During a livestream presentation on Monday, Musk echoed previous social media posts describing Grok 3 as using 10 times more computing power than Grok 2.

Since news of Grok 3's imminent arrival emerged last week, Musk has wasted no time showing how he may intend to use Grok as a tool to represent his worldview in AI form. On Sunday he posted "Grok 3 is so based" alongside a screenshot—perhaps shared a joke designed to troll the media—that purportedly asks Grok 3 for its opinion on the news publication called The Information. In response, Grok replies:

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